TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2026
...of 125 different genders: Yes, these things actually happened.
We'll start with some of the president's new claims concerning matters of gender. We'll be remembering, as we've done in the past, that gender and sexuality have always been challenging for us humans to deal with.
We'll start the with president's Truth Social post before yesterday's rally in Kansas. In his post, he made endless claims about Adam Hamilton, the Democratic Party's nominee for Senator Roger Marshall's Kansas Senate seat
He made a series of very strange claims. Some claims dealt with gender:
Truth Details
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Senator Roger Marshall’s opponent, Adam Hamilton, is a Radical Left Phony who is pretending to be a moderate because he does not have the courage to tell Kansas the truth about who he really is. Hamilton opposed my Travel Ban to keep Terrorists and Extremists out of our Country. He supports flooding Kansas with unvetted refugees from the most dangerous places on earth. Adam Hamilton used church dollars to fund anti-religious transgender activists who openly mock Jesus. He promotes a document listing 125 different genders, and directs his followers to 7 different websites to make children transgender. Adam Hamilton stated that he believes America is systemically racist. He said that white people must “repent” for being white, and that Kansans should repent for eating beef because you are causing global warming. He donated to Kamala Harris, Crooked Joe Biden, and Barack Hussein Obama and, very importantly, Adam Hamilton wants to take away your guns...
That's the first half of the lengthy screed. To peruse the full post, you can just click here.
Now it's time for a question:
According to the leading authority, here's a bit of background on the Democratic nominee. Are you sure that this person has chosen to "openly mock Jesus in the manner described?
Adam Hamilton (pastor)
Adam Joseph Hamilton (born July 12, 1964) is an American Christian theologian, minister, and author. He is senior pastor of the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection, the largest United Methodist congregation in the United States, based in the Greater Kansas City area.
Raised in Prairie Village, Kansas, Hamilton graduated with a bachelor's degree from Oral Roberts University in pastoral ministry and a Master of Divinity from the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University. He has written more than 30 books about Christian faith, biblical hermeneutics, and contemporary issues. His video-based lessons for Sunday school classes are widely used by Protestant Christians in the United States for instruction in the faith.
Hamilton is the Democratic nominee in the 2026 United States Senate election in Kansas.
[...]
Hamilton is founding pastor of the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, Kansas. The church began in 1990 with a few people meeting in a small chapel at a local funeral home and grew into the largest United Methodist congregation in the United States. It has an average weekly attendance of about 25,000 across its nine locations and its online and televised services.
[...]
Hamilton says the Bible is inspired by God and that God speaks through scripture, and he defends the Thirty-nine Articles' confession that "Holy Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation." In accordance with neo-orthodox theology, he rejects both theological liberalism and fundamentalism. In biblical hermeneutics, he supports the Wesleyan Quadrilateral, affirming that reason, revelation, and experience take precedence over tradition. His preaching states that Jesus is the only means by which humanity can be reconciled with God and leaves open the possibility that individuals may be saved in extraordinary circumstances...Those who reject it in knowledge of its validity are condemned.
We don't share this candidate's religious / cosmological beliefs. But do you feel sure that he has been openly mocking Jesus by doing such things as "promot[ing] a document listing 125 different genders," or by "direct[ing] his followers to 7 different websites to make children transgender?"
Here on this campus, we watch the Fox News Channel more than most Blue Americans do. Watching extremely peculiar programs like Gutfeld!, we're struck by the extent to which MAGA anger is fueled by issues involving gender—by attitudes which seem to involve the loathing of women, but also by constant focus on transgender topics.
Issues of sexuality and gender have always been hard. Last night, at his rally, the sitting president did in fact keep playing these highly emotional themes.
For the full transcript, just click here. This very morning, videotape of much of this was seen on Morning Joe:
PRESIDENT TRUMP (10/19/26): In 15 days, we're going to reelect Roger Marshall, one of the greatest. And we're going to defeat the Communists, the jihadists, and the corrupt anti-American lunatics once and for all. We're gonna put them back. We've gotta set them back, gotta hit them hard.
So Roger's opponent— I did a lot of work on this... So I understand what I'm saying.
Adam Hamilton used to say, like, bad things about me, really radical left things. I mean, he would talk like— I said, "This guy's a radical left lunatic."
...I didn't know. I'd never thought he'd be running for office, but I used to hear about this lunatic up here. I said, "What the hell is he doing in Kansas?"
But he'd say bad crap about me. And I don't like—I don't like people that do that. But he's a radical left phony who's pretending to be a moderate because he does not have the courage to tell Kansas the truth about his belief and really who he is.
Hamilton opposed my travel ban to keep terrorists and extremists out of our country, and he was vicious about it. What kind of a president would want to keep killers, thugs, lunatics—but he didn't say that—out of our country? [sic]
He supports flooding Kansas with unvetted refugees who go around killing people literally for no reason.
[Audience boos]
And they come in. He says it's okay for people to come in. From the most dangerous places on earth, they can pour into Kansas.
Adam Hamilton used church dollars to fund anti-religious transgender activity—activities.
[Audience boos]
I mean. And so, he used a lot of church money to fund all of this transgender crap that you're reading about, who openly mocks Jesus and he openly mocks Jesus. He promotes a document listing 125 different genders—you think Talafreako's bad, he was only six—and directs his followers to seven different websites to make children transgender.
He believes in letting children and making children transgender. Do you know that? I mean, I'm not saying this just out of the blue...
With respect to gender fury, it was the same stuff from his Truth Social post, with "Talafreako" thrown in. In short, our nation's in a very dangerous world of very serious hurt.
Tomorrow, we hope to return to what Shane Gillis said on SNL—to the way the stooges on The Five pretended to handle the topic.
Tomorrow: Even Jessica Tarlov complies
ReplyDelete"by attitudes which seem to involve the loathing of women"
My guess is that they make fun of some women, Bob. And some men too. Mostly those who richly deserve it. Consequently, your idea of "loathing of women" is a retarded Dumbocrat one.
"But do you feel sure that he has been openly mocking Jesus by doing such things as "promot[ing] a document listing 125 different genders," or by "direct[ing] his followers to 7 different websites to make children transgender?" "
Duh. Indeed, it seems that "openly mocking Jesus" is probably one of mildest ways to characterize this retarded behavior. Oh well.
I know how dum you are Mao, supporting the forever wars in the mid-east, hating on all minorities, promoting every single stupid thing coming out of the right wing noise machine. But how can you not know there is no B in dum, you fucking retard.
DeleteYes, malicious lies are despicable. I wonder when Bob will write a column about the common charge that Reps will end Social Security.
ReplyDeleteFuck you asshole, oh know Repukes plans are to destroy it by privatizing it. Go eat a bagofdicks you hateful troll.
DeleteOrange Felon went a little anti-semitic today, dickface
DeleteSo is Trump providing aid and comfort to our enemies of concern to Russian trolls like David? Of course.not.
DeleteWe also all know they.are.cutting taxes so they "have to" cut good stuff to balance the.budget they deliberately destroyed. Republicans, just a bunch of destructive jaggoffs lining their pockets at our expense.
DeleteDavid, Our Host has written extensively about the lies politicians spread about Social Security. Check the archives.
DeleteHRC is right about everything, is she David?
Delete"Now, Putin has proposed a summit with Trump and Xi to decide Ukraine’s fate for them, bulldoze a century of international cooperation, and frame Russia as an equal to the U.S. and China.
We’ll see if Putin’s puppet continues to dance on his strings."
Putin's puppet is such a scamp, isn't he David?
David in Cal,
DeleteIn your opinion, is your phony concern about politician's lies more ridiculous, or less ridiculous, than your phony concern about the deficit?
Trump/Russia - "IT WAS NEVER A HOAX"
DeleteSenator Whitehouse
For now, at least, David’s social security checks keep rolling in. Thank Goodness! That Kool-Aid ain’t gonna buy itself.
DeleteRepublicans have openly been trying to get rid of Social Security since it was first created.
DeleteWhoever is occupying the "David" moniker today is more of a moron than the others.
Dickhead is the same lying fuck who swore up and down that Trump had nothing to do with Project 2025. Best to ignore the lying troll
DeleteDavid is not so much dishonest as demented.
DeleteShould we pity David?
DeleteTrump’s malicious lies get results.
DeleteDavid in Cal,
DeleteI'd shoot you to death for writing such idiocy, if Obama hadn't confiscated all of our guns.
“President Trump and VP Vance announced a $25 million whistleblower program that would pay out cash for people who tip off the federal government about fraudsters.”
ReplyDeleteDear Fraud.gov,
It's about the guy in the White House. He has no idea what he’s doing. He doesn’t know how tariffs work. Or drug prices. Or elections or vaccines or negotiating. Or inflation. And he cheats at golf. Complete fraud.
When can I expect my check?
Yesterday at a rally Trump confessed that he wears makeup because "otherwise I'd look like death".
ReplyDeleteThen he went on to talk about the various men he is attracted to.
Then the poorly attended rally ended and Trump gingerly walked off stage towards his waiting car but then kept walking into an empty field past the the car and was wandering around until Secret Service came and guided him back into the car.
All of this actually happened and was captured on unedited video.
Republicans pretended this stuff happened with Biden, it did not, yet here Trump is actually doing those things and silence from Republicans.
Trump's baby brain probably told him to make a boom boom outside of the car and then did not want to sit in the car with a soiled diaper.
DeleteThis is called simply “being a Republican.”
DeleteToday Somerby dutifully repeats all the false Republican talking points on a Dem candidate very close to flipping one of the deepest red states.
ReplyDeleteSomerby says sex and gender are difficult subjects for people but this is also false.
Sex is biological, gender is a social construct, there is nothing difficult about this, unless you are a right winger and want to express your urge for dominance by punching down on people with views on orientation and gender that challenge your emotional comfort.
Republicans/right wingers are challenged by orientation and gender in part because there is so much latent or secretly active interest in h o m o and b i behavior in the GOP. Every time they gather they crash Grindr. These sad lost souls are disgusted by their own natural inclinations, so they externalize it onto others.
Sex and gender are the easiest parts of my life. I’ve never had any trouble them.
DeleteIt's difficult for me. I don't see gender as a "social construct." According to Wikipedia there are more than 70 "genders.' It seems crazy to most people. And I'm a democrat, who finds Trump loathsome.
DeleteBig deal. Even Trump’s strong supporters find him to be loathsome. That’s why they love him so much. What’s wrong with you, didn’t you know that?
DeleteI know three genders: masculine, feminine, neuter: he, she, it.
DeleteA standard idea from the 1950’s was that men played soldier, fought in wars, and were the breadwinners. Women played with dolls and were expected to be housewives and mothers. Hegseth wants men to be testosterone fueled killing machines, and wants women out of the armed forces, because they are too sensitive and merciful. These are socially constructed roles, that have been assigned to people with certain sex organs. There is nothing inherently true about these assigned roles based on a person’s sex organs. This socially constructed role is therefore a social construct that is called “gender role”, or more simply “gender”.
DeleteGender isn't hard if you focus on your own gender and not dictating other people's. Socially constructed means that we learn our gender as we grow up, instead of it emerging from our biology. Nature dictates that women have babies, as an aspect of sex. Society dictates that women change the diapers, as an aspect of gender roles. Anyone can change a diaper. That's why assignment of diaper-changing is socially constructed not part of biology.
DeleteWe no longer live in a society where moms are home all the time and therefore do all the diaper changing. We don’t live in a society where men go out into the bush in order to kill a source of protein. If there’s anyone in the world who wishes to dictate what people must do or not do, it’s you gender freaks who insist that we must divorce sex from biology. Speak for yourself. Make that decision for yourself. You’ll never force me to abide by that nonsense.
DeleteWe no longer live in that society … because people, mainly women, rejected their assigned gender roles and fought against them. You’re such a piece of shit Cecelia.
DeleteAnonymouse 7:54pm, people of both sexes abide by gender “roles” all day long. The classification of a gender role is changed via societal progression OR by decline.
DeleteIt has nothing to do with decline. It has to do with women saying “fuck gender roles” and fuck the roles imposed on them. Your party wants to return to those imposed roles.
Delete“Societal progression”: unbelievable you wouid say this with a straight face. Progression is what progressives do, deliberately, not your party of retrograde assholes. .
DeleteAnonymouse 8:04pm, if you were stuck somewhere in the woods you wouldn’t be bucking gender roles as to tasks required to build a shelter. There are some things you can do and some things you can’t do. Blame Gaia.
DeleteAnonymouse 8:06pm, go put that remark on a bumper sticker. That’s where it belongs.
DeleteFuck off.
DeletePlenty of women stuck in the woods have built their own shelters. This idea that women on camping trips or living in the wilderness or just on farms stand around watching men do the work is ridiculous and demeaning to women.
DeleteAnonymouse 8:21pm, there are women who have taken martial arts and can kick the arse of a male assailant. That does not mean that women in general have the body strength that certain tasks require, again- TECHNOLOGY has helped us and has influenced gender roles.
DeleteMen don’t have strength either without developing it.
DeleteMen have greater upper-body strength not because of their genitals but because of their gender role.
DeleteMen’s genitals — and women’s — are socially constructed, not inate.
DeleteThere are weirdos who believe not every Republican voter is a bigot.
DeleteSorry,, but you’ll never force me to abide by that nonsense.
For Republicans there are three genders; male, female, and pre-teen. The latter is the one they are sexually attracted to.
DeleteThe Trannytroll has got to go.
DeleteSo, don't talk, go. You got my permission.
DeleteWhy are we allowing Vivek Ramaswamy, a Hindu devil worshipper, to falsely attack a good Christian woman on completely false pretenses. Why do Republicans want lying Hindu's over good Christian women? WHy do Republicans hate Jesus?
ReplyDeleteBecause Jesus was a woke commie and Republicans are all phonies, they only use religion as a tool of domination.
DeleteJesus was an enemy of the Roman Empire, which was the Western Civilization of his era.
DeleteRamaswamy is deplorable.
DeleteRamaswamy (and Jesus) are cute.
DeleteHe’s a fucking liar, using Acton’s mother, who sided with her husband who raped Acton, to denounce Acton. He’s a despicable piece of shit, and so are you Cecelia. Why do you make such a despicable fool of yourself? It’s a new low for your fucking party of deplorables. Fuck off.
DeleteAI says: "Jesus was not a military or political enemy who sought to overthrow Rome, but he was executed by the Roman Empire because his message of a divine "Kingdom of God" posed a political and public order threat because his followers labeled him the King of the Jews.
DeleteAnonymous 7:41pm, go sober up.
DeleteI assume you’re all in in the despicable ramaswamy ad.
DeleteAnonymouse 8:02pm, yes, I’m waving from the third tier banister.
DeleteWhy don’t you just fuck off.
DeleteAnonhmouse 8:07pm, I wish the best to whoever it is who is forcing you to read me. You deserve it,
DeleteYou are wasting people's time. Go away.
DeleteI notice you’re reading me, asshole.
DeleteAnonymous 8:18pm, you’ve made the make the decision to read my posts. It’s entirely your choice. You aren’t forced to do it. I can tolerate reading your crap and I can reply to it. Get over it.
DeleteBut Cecelia, you agree, Ramaswamy is right. Acton is a liar. You agree, don’t you?
DeleteRamaswamy is the consummate snake oil salesman but his timing in this case is a bit premature as he has too many days ahead of him before the election to be on the receiving end of scathing blowback for this tactic. Republicans voters in this case are understandably torn by the facts, on the one hand, that the Rammer is dark skinned and therefore needs to be reviled, and on the other, that he made his money through shady dealings that no honest man would have been involved with, and is therefore needing to be applauded and served up as a role model.
DeleteSpot on.
DeleteIf supporting pedophiles would bring down the price of gas, I'd vote Republican.
DeleteNotice the Trannytroll got nothing. Just your usual deluded MAGAT hater.
DeleteIt is bizarre that Somerby quotes Trump as if he has ever made sense on any topic. Trump knows absolutely nothing about gender. He makes up his own numbers too. He is a huge liar. Why treat anything Trump says, especially about gender, as if it were meaningful. He is just trying to scare people.
ReplyDeleteGender isn't hard, except for Trump who finds everything hard.
"Why treat anything Trump says, especially about gender, as if it were meaningful."
DeleteBecause he's twice been elected the leader of the richest, most powerful country in the world. So everything he says and does has at a minimum, a meaning that reflects back onto the American people.
If I had known Americans were bigoted fans of pedophilia, I wouldn't have gotten the COVID vaccines to protect their loser asses.
DeleteSomerby needs to not just fact-check but also rebut Trump's false statements, otherwise people get confused about what is real and true in the world. In this case, people are also being misled about what Democrats believe. When Somerby fails to check or contradict the nonsense, he furthers it himself and that helps no one.
ReplyDeleteIt is easy to use AI to fact-check lies:
"The premise of a "125 genders" comment is a rhetorical exaggeration he frequently uses during political rallies. In his speeches, Trump often mocks modern concepts of gender identity by inventing arbitrary, high numbers (such as saying "they say there are 34, 50, or 125 genders") to criticize what his administration terms "gender ideology extremism". He does not actually list or validate 125 distinct genders."
125 = 5 x 5 x 5.
Delete8:31,
Deleteare you human?
Even Trump’s crowds are bored with his nonsense ranting and raving.
DeleteNew tape of Trump saying how hard it is for him to "rant and rave" for two hours. Fucking weirdo ain't he?
Delete
ReplyDeleteI touch my asshole, and I sniff my finger. Hooray, what a joy!
And I generate another word-salad, to tell the world: Somerby is an ass!
I am Corby.
File this under "Draining the Swamp":
ReplyDeletePresident Donald Trump pardoned Venezuelan billionaire Julio Herrera Velutini after the banker's daughter offered his longtime attorney and Justice Department adviser Alina Habba a contract worth $40 million, with bonuses that could push the total above $50 million, according to an October 20 investigation by The New York Times. The deal came as the family poured millions into Trump's political operation and pledged another $2.5 million toward his White House ballroom.
Under the proposed agreement, Habba would receive $10 million annually for four years through a newly established firm while serving as an adviser to Attorney General Pam Bondi. Trump granted Herrera Velutini an initial pardon on January 15, 2026, followed by an amended clemency order five days later. White House officials maintain that the family's political contributions had no bearing on the president's decision.
https://www.lawcommentary.com/articles/trump-pardon-alina-habba-50-million-deal
One of many.
DeleteTo which, MAGATs in unison declare “But what about Hunter Biden’s dick?”. The most corrupt administration and enabling Congress in history.
DeleteIf a tree falls in the forest and the maggots pretend they don’t see orange felons blatant corruption, does the corruption make a sound?
DeleteFortunately, every honest businessman in America (all none of them) stopped Republican corruption cold.
DeleteTrump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff to Vladimir Putin today: “You talk so much about Trump being a humanitarian, you are a humanitarian also, sir. And I salute that. I commend you.”
ReplyDeleteMy god, is this true?
Delete100% true.
DeleteNo, it’s false. Neither Trump nor Putin is a humanitarian.
Delete
DeleteEveryone who is not a retarded Dumbocrat is a humanitarian.
But witkoff did say it.
DeleteThese fucking evil shits are not colluding with Putin, no siree. These fucksticks make me ill.
DeleteTriggered, Hillary?
DeleteWitkoff said it, and it’s false.
DeleteThe right has been circulating fake pro-trans materials supposedly aimed at children, telling them how to seek surgery and use bathrooms. It has been mailing this stuff to households with Republican voters and no children, to stoke anti-trans feeling ahead of the election.
ReplyDeleteOn Tuesday, Somerby's handlers told him to write something about trans to support this campaign, and he dutifully did. He repeated Trump's statement about 125 genders, without fact-checking or debunking, because any mention of the term "trans" is enough to outrage the kind of voters who will come out for Paxton.
From the length and content of Tuesday's essay, Somerby is still not feeling well. But he has the strength to participate in the campaign-messaging of the day. Too bad it is such garbage.
It is amazing if you watch any of the YouTube videos of The Good Liars interviewing magas at Trump rallies, how they always reflexively use the trans issue to explain why they support Trump. They believe every piece of bullshit the orange felon spews.
DeleteThe dumocrats want to shrink my penis down to the size of a clitoris, and I won’t let them do it.
DeletePoor 9:48 is afraid (with good reason) Republican men will no longer be able to find his genitals.
DeleteMy genitals are precious to me. Only my brain is more precious, and the dumocrats are shrinking that, too.
DeleteAttention, Dickhead in Cal! When you pull your demented head out of Hegseth's testosterone ass:
ReplyDeleteThis is a disgrace, and it directly impacts our military readiness.
Some 1,300 Navy family members were evacuated from Bahrain during the Iran war. Months later, families are still displaced, separated from loved ones, struggling financially, and waiting for answers.
MS NOW EXCLUSIVE: Military families abandoned by Pete Hegseth describe the hasty and traumatic evacuation from Naval Support Activity Bahrain in March.
@nicollewallace.bsky.social
is joined by Priya Sridhar, bylined on this story, for the latest.
Hard losing a war on day one. Sad.
DeleteDid you all catch the video of the orange felon mumbling from his desk about how the Russian general made a wrong turn in Ukraine on Day 1 of their invasion which unfortunately blew their opportunity to win the war in one day?
ReplyDeleteCan somebody please throw a net around that maniac and get him away from the Nukes?